House Concerts!!!
Now I see what's the big hype about the annual house concerts. They're an awful lotta fun. I was dressed in serious orange (the cool long-sleeved Nike that I got as a farewell present) in a fit of patriotism. Though I didn't know most of the house cheers, I managed anyhow to catch some of the simpler ones quickly enough. If you're wondering why I'm not wearing uniform, for the three days leading up to house concerts, they declared them free dress days. So we could wear anything we wanted to. Cool huh?
Before anything even started everyone at Wyselaskie was trying to drown each other's voices out with chants of the house names. Not to mention the deafening amount of stamping and clapping and screaming and spontaneous house cheers that was going on non-stop. Glamis (green house, pronounced 'glams' for some strange reason) was up first with uh...Volcanoes and Jazz Music. Every show starts with the orchestra and they're all really good. The whole stage was used, including the sides, kinda like Fame for those who have seen it in Istana Budaya last time...Glamis did pretty impressive freeze frames to switch between the real world (where one of the characters was reading a book aloud to another in bed) and the storybook world, the main stage and other side.
Next was Atholl (blue). Rainbows and Rap Music. Freaking good! They've got the coolest drummer and a really cohesive script. Everything flowed so well. Highlight was the way they changed scenes. And a cute leprechaun. =P They won a lot of the side awards, best this and best that, I can't remember anymore. Their costumes were pretty good too, all dressed like rappers, to quote one of them, "Yeah, I know. Our captains wanted us to look like drag queens so we did."
Recess.
Leven (purple). Pretty boring actually for a house who got a title with so much potential, The Solar Eclipse and Rock n' Roll music. I wonder why everyone depicts rock n' roll as the Elvis P. and the 60's. Why can't it be modern rock?! And of all things the main story was about this young Aztec boy who wanted to leave his tribe! WhAT in the WOrLd?! But granted, they did their research on the Aztec colours and what they wore at that time...and the judges actually pointed that out and were impressed by it.
Then, of course, the one and only Stirling!! Sand Dunes and Classical Music. Everything went pretty well, except for one time where the curtain opened too early and the music came on too late. Everyone loved the Tofu Dance, which involved blocks of tofu dancing to Beethoven's 5th. We have a really good song (in my opinion and in many others as well) that just involves vocals only, no instruments.
The highlight of the day: Staff Act. Invovles group of mad teachers dancing to a really dumb song. Last year it was YMCA, this year I don't know. But whoa...they seriously brought the house down...you can feel the hall reverberating with stamps and screams that went on and on and on...and on. I cheered till I was hoarse too. Hilarious!
Lunch.
Balmoral (white), had a stunning backdrop but less than desirable script. Pretty boring I daresay. They were doing The Four Seasons and Disco Music, and it's about this middle-aged man reminiscing about the day the Four Seasons Disco Club opened. Backdrop blended all four seasons and an element of each season, like leaves for autumn, butterflies for spring etc. and in the foreground black silhouettes of dancing patrons...
Rosslyn (red), champion of the 2004 House Concerts, did Lightning and Country Music. Their theme was about the cultural differences between Alaskans and Australians. First there's these four country singers from the outback, going to some city to perform, halfway thru the flight, lightning caused some turbulence and their flight had to be diverted to Alaska instead! What a stretch. Nonetheless, they had an exciting cowgirl dance, and and Eskimo dance...and subtitles that said:
"We r Australian."
"Y r u in Alaska?"
And they kept using Shannon Noll's What About Me in really ridiculously funny ways. Their trademark was rewriting humourous lyrics to well-known songs, and that worked really well to crack up the audience.
That's it about house concert day, albeit recounted in a horribly staggered and incoherent manner. I dunno, when I write blogs (or just write in general) sometimes the words flow easily, sometimes I have to wrest it out from my muddled brain.
This is one of those days.
Before anything even started everyone at Wyselaskie was trying to drown each other's voices out with chants of the house names. Not to mention the deafening amount of stamping and clapping and screaming and spontaneous house cheers that was going on non-stop. Glamis (green house, pronounced 'glams' for some strange reason) was up first with uh...Volcanoes and Jazz Music. Every show starts with the orchestra and they're all really good. The whole stage was used, including the sides, kinda like Fame for those who have seen it in Istana Budaya last time...Glamis did pretty impressive freeze frames to switch between the real world (where one of the characters was reading a book aloud to another in bed) and the storybook world, the main stage and other side.
Next was Atholl (blue). Rainbows and Rap Music. Freaking good! They've got the coolest drummer and a really cohesive script. Everything flowed so well. Highlight was the way they changed scenes. And a cute leprechaun. =P They won a lot of the side awards, best this and best that, I can't remember anymore. Their costumes were pretty good too, all dressed like rappers, to quote one of them, "Yeah, I know. Our captains wanted us to look like drag queens so we did."
Recess.
Leven (purple). Pretty boring actually for a house who got a title with so much potential, The Solar Eclipse and Rock n' Roll music. I wonder why everyone depicts rock n' roll as the Elvis P. and the 60's. Why can't it be modern rock?! And of all things the main story was about this young Aztec boy who wanted to leave his tribe! WhAT in the WOrLd?! But granted, they did their research on the Aztec colours and what they wore at that time...and the judges actually pointed that out and were impressed by it.
Then, of course, the one and only Stirling!! Sand Dunes and Classical Music. Everything went pretty well, except for one time where the curtain opened too early and the music came on too late. Everyone loved the Tofu Dance, which involved blocks of tofu dancing to Beethoven's 5th. We have a really good song (in my opinion and in many others as well) that just involves vocals only, no instruments.
The highlight of the day: Staff Act. Invovles group of mad teachers dancing to a really dumb song. Last year it was YMCA, this year I don't know. But whoa...they seriously brought the house down...you can feel the hall reverberating with stamps and screams that went on and on and on...and on. I cheered till I was hoarse too. Hilarious!
Lunch.
Balmoral (white), had a stunning backdrop but less than desirable script. Pretty boring I daresay. They were doing The Four Seasons and Disco Music, and it's about this middle-aged man reminiscing about the day the Four Seasons Disco Club opened. Backdrop blended all four seasons and an element of each season, like leaves for autumn, butterflies for spring etc. and in the foreground black silhouettes of dancing patrons...
Rosslyn (red), champion of the 2004 House Concerts, did Lightning and Country Music. Their theme was about the cultural differences between Alaskans and Australians. First there's these four country singers from the outback, going to some city to perform, halfway thru the flight, lightning caused some turbulence and their flight had to be diverted to Alaska instead! What a stretch. Nonetheless, they had an exciting cowgirl dance, and and Eskimo dance...and subtitles that said:
"We r Australian."
"Y r u in Alaska?"
And they kept using Shannon Noll's What About Me in really ridiculously funny ways. Their trademark was rewriting humourous lyrics to well-known songs, and that worked really well to crack up the audience.
That's it about house concert day, albeit recounted in a horribly staggered and incoherent manner. I dunno, when I write blogs (or just write in general) sometimes the words flow easily, sometimes I have to wrest it out from my muddled brain.
This is one of those days.
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